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the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate

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  1. n. the word/grammatical">grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
  2. n. (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
  3. n. the word/grammatical">grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate